Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

Friday, May 2, presents a perfect opportunity to catch the mighty ice giant Neptune close to the planets Saturn and Venus in ...

Venus and Saturn shine before dawn, with Neptune tucked between them — see if you can spot the ice giant with binoculars or a ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds which may be able to harbor life even far from any ...

Water ice is a crucial building block of planetary systems. We've found plenty of it in our own Solar System, in places like ...

It may sound like science fiction, but for distant planets it could be a reality. Scientists believe that deep within the atmospheres of these ice giants are gases that are different from those ...

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous ...

A unique view: These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA Voyager 2 on April 26,1989. The picture on the top was taken five hours after that at bottom, during which time the planet rotated ...